Archaeology

The Routledge Handbook of the Bioarchaeology of Human Conflict

Edited by Christopher Knüsel, Martin Smith

If human burials were our only window onto the past, what story would they tell? Skeletal injuries constitute the most direct and unambiguous evidence for violence in the past. Whereas weapons or defenses may simply be statements of prestige or status and written sources are characteristically...

To Be Published November 26th 2013 by Routledge

The Routledge Handbook of Archaeological Human Remains and Legislation

An international guide to laws and practice in the excavation and treatment of archaeological human remains

Edited by Nicholas Marquez-Grant, Linda Fibiger

Methodologies and legislative frameworks regarding the archaeological excavation, retrieval, analysis, curation and potential reburial of human skeletal remains differ throughout the world. As work forces have become increasingly mobile and international research collaborations are steadily...

Published March 24th 2013 by Routledge

Archaeology in the Making

Conversations through a Discipline

Edited by William L Rathje, Michael Shanks, Christopher Witmore

Archaeology in the Making is a collection of bold statements about archaeology, its history, how it works, and why it is more important than ever. This book comprises conversations about archaeology among some of its notable contemporary figures. They delve deeply into the questions that have come...

Published November 18th 2012 by Routledge

Reclaiming Archaeology

Beyond the Tropes of Modernity

Edited by Alfredo González-Ruibal

Series: Archaeological Orientations

Archaeology has been an important source of metaphors for some of the key intellectuals of the 20th century: Sigmund Freud, Walter Benjamin, Alois Riegl and Michel Foucault, amongst many others. However, this power has also turned against archaeology, because the discipline has been dealt with...

Published May 22nd 2013 by Routledge

Ruin Memories

Materialities, Aesthetics and the Archaeology of the Recent Past

Edited by Bjørnar Olsen, Þóra Péturdóttir

Series: Archaeological Orientations

Since the 19th century, mass-production, consumerism and cycles of material replacement have accelerated; increasingly larger amounts of things are increasingly rapidly victimized and made redundant. At the same time processes of destruction have immensely intensified, although largely overlooked...

To Be Published December 30th 2013 by Routledge

The Ancient Central Andes

By Jeffrey Quilter

Series: Routledge World Archaeology

The Ancient Central Andes presents a general overview of the prehistoric peoples and cultures of the Central Andes, the region now encompassing most of Peru and significant parts of Ecuador, Bolivia, northern Chile, and northwestern Argentina. The book contextualizes past and modern scholarship and...

To Be Published November 30th 2013 by Routledge

Relational Archaeologies

Humans, Animals, Things

Edited by Christopher Watts

Many of us accept as uncontroversial the belief that the world is comprised of detached and disparate products, all of which are reducible to certain substances. Of those things that are alive, we acknowledge that some have agency while others, such as humans, have more advanced qualities such as...

Published May 21st 2013 by Routledge

The Sumerian World

Edited by Harriet Crawford

Series: Routledge Worlds

The Sumerian World explores the archaeology, history and art of southern Mesopotamia and its relationships with its neighbours from c.3,000 - 2,000BC. Including material hitherto unpublished from recent excavations, the articles are organised thematically using evidence from archaeology, texts and...

Published November 28th 2012 by Routledge

Bodies in Conflict

Corporeality, Materiality, and Transformation

Edited by Nicholas J Saunders, Paul Cornish

Twentieth-century war is a unique cultural phenomenon and the last two decades have seen significant advances in our ability to conceptualize and understand the past and the character of modern technological warfare. At the forefront of these developments has been the re-appraisal of the human body...

To Be Published December 30th 2013 by Routledge

Perishable Material Culture in Prehistory

Investigating the Missing Majority

By Linda Hurcombe

Perishable Material Culture in Prehistory provides new approaches and integrates a broad range of data to address a neglected topic, organic material in the prehistoric record. Providing news ideas and connections and suggesting revisionist ways of thinking about broad themes in the past, this book...

To Be Published November 30th 2013 by Routledge

The Vikings

By Neil Price

Series: Peoples of the Ancient World

The Vikings provides a concise but comprehensive introduction to the complex world of the early medieval Scandinavians. In the space of less than 300 years from the late eighth to the late eleventh centuries CE, people from what are now Norway, Sweden and Denmark left their homelands in...

To Be Published December 30th 2013 by Routledge

Miletos

Archaeology and History, 2nd Edition

By Alan M. Greaves

Series: Cities of the Ancient World

Miletos, on the coast of Asia Minor, was one of the most important Greek cities – a key economic power as well as a centre of philosophy and learning. Yet with historical sources scarce, and the mass of archaeological work done in over a century of excavations not published in English, studying the...

To Be Published November 30th 2013 by Routledge